_If we shall strictly examine the circumstances and requisites which_ Aristotle _requires to true and perfect valour, we shall find the name onely in his Master_ Alexander, (_that is, no more than the name) and as little in that Roman worthy_ Julius Cæsar.] _Aristot. 3. Ethic. cap. 6._ amongst other requisites, requires to valour, that it keep a mediocrity betwixt audacity and fear; that we thrust not our selves into danger when we need not; that we spare not to shew our valour when occasion requires: he requires for its proper object, Death; and to any death, he prefers death in War, because thereby a man profits his Country and Friends; and that he calls _mors honesta_, an honest or honourable death: and thereupon he defines a valiant man to be, _Is qui morte honesta proposita, iisq; omnibus quæ cum sint repentina mortem adfuerunt metu vacat_. So that by the Author's saying, there was onely the Name in _Alexander_, he means only that which is rendred in the two last words, _metu vacans_, and not the rest that goes to make up the definition of a valiant man, which is very truly affirmed of _Alexander_, who exposed himself to hazzard many times when there was no cause for it: As you may read in _Curtius_, he did, in the siege of _Tyrus_, and many other ways. _Cettuy-cy semble rechercher et courir à force les dangiers comme un impetueux torrent, qui choque et attaque sans discretion, et sans chois tout ce qu'il rencontre_, saith _Montaign_, speaking of _Alexander, l. 2. des Ess. cap. 34_. And for _Cæsar_, it cannot be denied, but in his Wars he was many times (though not so generally as _Alexander_) more adventrous than reason military could warrant to him; and therefore _Lucan_ gives him no better Character than _Acer et indomitus quo spes quoq; ira vocasset Ferre manum, etc._ Lucan. lib. 1. To instance in some Particulars: with what an inconsiderable strength did he enterprize the conquest of _Egypt_, and afterwards went to attaque the forces of _Scipio_ and _Juba_, which were ten times more than his own? after the Battle of _Pharsalia_, having sent his Army before into _Asia_, and crossing the _Hellespont_ with one single Vessel, he there meets _Lucius Cassius_ with ten men of War, he makes up to him, summons him to render, and he does it. In the famous and furious siege of _Alexia_, where he had 80,000 men to make defence against him, and an Army of one hundred and nine thousand Horse, and two hundred and forty thousand foot, all marching towards him, to raise his siege; yet for all that he would not quit the siege, but first fought with those without, and obtain'd a great Victory over them, and soon afterwards brought the besieged to his mercy. _Sect. 26. Pag. 41._